The utterance of improper and offensive sentences aloud, in the presence of several users, towards a colleague - Sexually offensive sentences towards a colleague and just cause for dismissal
Illicit removal of a child habitually resident in Argentina, relocated by the taking parent to Paraguay without the father's consent - Violation of the duty of due diligence for failing to locate for nine years a child regularly attending school and receiving public health care - Violation of the right to personal integrity for putting the applicant in a permanent state of anguish - Violation of the obligation to respect the rights and freedoms without any discrimination
Dissenting / Concurring: Pérez Manrique, Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot, Mudrovitsch / Sierra Porto, Hernándz López, Pérez Goldberg
Pregnant adolescent encouraged to give her unborn child up for adoption by health professionals on the basis of gendered stereotypes concerning her unsuitability to find a partner to form a family should the child be kept by her – Authorization to adopt the baby signed by the mother without any assisting lawyer in a document directed to the Provincial Direction for the Promotion of the Rights of the Child, Adolescent and the Family – Violation of the rights to equality, family life, judicial guarantees, judicial protection, physical integrity, live free from violence, and the rights of the child
Systematic persecution of the Colombian State against members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective Corporation through harassment, threats, killings, disappearances and physical violence from the 1990s amounts to a violation of the rights to life, personal integrity, privacy, judicial protection, freedom of association, free movement, family protection, children’s rights and defending human rights - Gendered and sexual threats against women human rights defenders particularly targeted because of their gender, including reference to possible sexual violence against them or their daughters
Dissenting / Concurring: Hernández López / Mudrovitsch / Pérez Goldberg
Provisional measures - Context of systemic violations of human rights including aggressions, harassment, threats and arbitrary detentions of journalists - Violence and exposure to risk of irreparable damage for women exacerbated by gender stereotypes and prejudices
Store manager's request to a homosexual couple to stop 'amorous scenes' and attempt to remove them forcibly - Use of homophobic stereotypes in domestic rulings including that homosexuality is a pathology and that queer expressions of affection are always erotic – Domestic court’s justification of the ejection of the couple based on 'respect for morality' and 'the best interest of the child' in the light of a purported scientific consensus on the consequences of the exposure of children to homosexual behaviour – Violation of the right to personal liberty, privacy and equality before the law – Violation of the right to access to justice and the right to an effective remedy with the authorities having imposed on the applicant an unreasonably high and disproportionate standard of proof
Article 8 (Positive obligations/Privacy) - Legal impossibility for a transgender parent to indicate their current gender, unrelated to their reproductive function, on the birth certificate of their child conceived after gender reassignment - Fair balance struck between the transgender parent's right to self-determination, the public interests of legal certainty and reliability and consistency of civil status, and the interests and well-being of the child
The applicants alleged in particular that, following amendments to the legislative framework in 2020, they have effectively been banned from having access to legal abortion in the case of foetal abnormalities - inadmissible
General legal prohibition on posthumous assisted reproduction within the national territory and on export of gametes and embryos for that purpose to Spain, where the practice is permitted - No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: Georges Ravarani
Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 3 - The alleged lack of an appropriate procedural response by the domestic authorities in connection with acts of homophobic violence against the applicant, who is a prominent figure in the local LGBTI community -
Article 8 (Positive obligations/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same‑sex couples
Refusal to register details of foreign birth certificate establishing legal relationship between child born through surrogacy arrangement abroad and her biological father, without considering alternative solution - Violation of Article 8
Dissenting / Concurring: Krzysztof Wojtyczek
Art 8 (Positive obligations/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples _ Confirmation of positive obligation to provide legal framework affording such couples adequate recognition and protection
Dissenting / Concurring: Pavli, Motoc / Wojtyczek / Poláčková / Lobov
Article 8 (Family life) - Domestic courts’ order for return of child from Cyprus to the USA under the Hague Convention following removal by its mother, the applicant - No violation
Refusal to allow persons born through medically assisted reproduction involving a third-party donor to access information about that donor, under the rule guaranteeing anonymity in gamete donations - No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: Georges Ravarani, Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, Mykola Gnatovsky
Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection of same-sex couples
Dissenting / Concurring: Pavli
A Moroccan intersex individual challenged their expulsion from France to Morocco, citing health risks and dangers due to their gender identity - The Court declared the application inadmissible, as the applicant had not exhausted domestic legal remedies
Article 3 (substantive and procedural) and Article 14 (+ Article 3) (Discrimination) - Abduction, detention and torture of applicant by State agents in Chechnya on account of his sexual orientation - Abduction, detention and torture of applicant triggered by homophobic motives which were not investigated
A former orthodox metropolitan challenging his conviction for incitement to hatred and discrimination under Greek law – The conviction stemmed from public statements he made, encouraging violence and exclusion against the LGBTQ+ community
Prohibition of abortion on grounds of foetal abnormality following amendments introduced by the Constitutional Court, resulting in the applicant travelling abroad for termination - Impugned proceedings directly decisive for applicant’s Art 8 rights - Lack of required foreseeability depriving applicant of the proper safeguards against arbitrariness
Dissenting / Concurring: Krzysztof Wojtyczek, Péter Paczolay / Ivana Jelić, Gilberto Felici, Erik Wennerström